In the final of our three-part series about how to use your phone better, we walk through a few hidden phone settings our experts swear by. Plus: how to stay off your phone.I am about one time-sucked, completely lost afternoon away from chucking my phone into the sea. And what is it I’m doing when I pick up my phone? Your guess is as good as mine, frankly. It’s not normally for anything novel or particularly interesting. Even if at first my intention was to just use the calculator and be done with it, I almost always end up mindlessly scrolling on the thing, flopping from one draining social media app to another.I’d love to see my phone as more of a resource rather than a distraction. And I’m hoping that I can get there in part by discovering some new ways that my phone can be useful to me. I’d like to adopt new “default” phone activities that aren’t social media— whether its brushing up on my Spanish with a language learning app or learning more about the plants I see on my post-work walks.So today, let’s embark on the final part of our 3-part phone series: We’ll unlock a few new tips to use our phones in surprising and useful ways. And, because putting your phone down entirely sometimes is a good idea, we’ll cover a few tips for using it less, too. Let’s get into it.